Business Operations - Revenues and Percentage of Consolidated Revenue (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Revenue, Major Customer [Line Items]
Revenue of significant customer	$ 550,543	$ 534,681	$ 276,193
Statoil ASA [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member]
Revenue, Major Customer [Line Items]
Revenue of significant customer			$ 42,600

Amount of revenue recognized from goods sold, services rendered, insurance premiums, or other activities that constitute an earning process. Includes, but is not limited to, investment and interest income before deduction of interest expense when recognized as a component of revenue, and sales and trading gain (loss).

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 225
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=63488584&loc=d3e20235-122688

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